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REV. DR. TALIAGE
the NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject; “Wholesale Divorce.”
Text: “What, therefore, God hath joined
together lot not man put asunder."—Matthew
&ix., 6.
That there are hundreds and thousands of
lnieiieitous •
homes in America no one will
uouDi. If there were only-one skeleton in
the closet, that might be locked up and
abandoned, but in many a home there is a
skeleton in the hallway and.a skeleton in all
the apartments.
scriptive “Unhappily of married" are two words de*
orthodox many a homestead. It needs no
minister to prove to a badly mated
pair that there is a hell. They are there now.
hornet jmes a grand and gracious woman will
he thus incarcerated, and her life will bo a
crucifixion, the as was the ease with Mrs. Sigour¬
ney, great poetess and the great soul,
bometimes a consecrated man will be united
to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a
vixem, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and
generally, Thomas both parties are to blame, and
wife Carlyle was an intolerable scold, and
ms smoked and swore, and Froude, the
lifelong historian, pulled aside the curtain from the
Cheyne squahbfeat Craigenputtock and Five,
Row. wriy*
these Some say that‘far -the alleviation of all
domestic disorders of whicli we hear
easy divorce is a gowl prescription. God
sometimes authorizesjiivorce as certainly as
Ho authorizes marriage. Ihave just as much
regard for one lawfully divorced as I have
for one lawfully married. But you know
and I know that wholesale divorce is one of
our National scourges. I am not surprised
at this when 1 think of the influences which
have been abroad militating against the mar¬
riage relation.
For many years the platforms of the coun¬
try rang with talk about a free iove millen¬
nium. There were meetings of this kind held
in the Cooper Institute, New York; Tremont
Temple, Some Boston, and all over the land.
of the women who were most promi¬
nent in that movement have since been dis¬
tinguished for great promiscuosity of affec¬
tion. Populartliems for suchoebasions were
the tyranny of man, the oppression of the
marriage relation, women's rights and the
aifinilies. Prominent speakers were women
with short curls and short dress, and very
long tongue, everlastingly at war with God
because they were created women, while on
the platform sat meek men with soft accent
and cowed demeanor, apologetic for mascu¬
linity, and holding the parasols while the
termagant orators went on preaching the
doctrine of free love.
That campaign of about twenty years set
more devils into the marriage relation than
will be exorcised in the next fifty. Men and
women went home from such meetings so
permanently wives confused as to who were their
and husbands that thoy never got out
of their perplexity, and the criminal and the
civil courts tried to disentangle the “Iliad”
of woes, and this one got alimony, and that
one got a limited divorce, and this mother
kept the children on condition that the
father could sometimes come and look at
them, those and these went into poorhottses, and
went into an insane asylum, and those
went into dissolute public life, and all went
to destruction. The mightiest war ever
made against the marriage institution was
that free love campaign, sometimes under
one name and sometimes under another.
Another influence that has warred upon
the marriage relation has been polygamy in
Utah. That was a stereotyped caricature of
the marriage relation and has poisoned the
whole land. You might as well think that
you can have an arm In a state of mortifica¬
tion and yet the whole body not bo sickened
as to have these Territories poly gamized and
yet the body of the Nation not feel the putre¬
faction. ileal - it, good men and women of
America, that so long ago as 1862 a law was
the passed Territories by Congress forbidding the places polygamy in
and in all where
they had jurisdiction. Twenty-four years
passed along and live administrations before
the first brick was knocked from that for¬
tress of libertinism.
Every new President in his inaugural
tickled that monster with the straw of con¬
demnation, self iu and every Congress plan that stultified would it¬
proposing some intrenched, not
work. Polygauy stood more
and more brazen, and more puissant, and
more braggart, and more infernal. James
Buchannan, o much abused man of his d->y,
did more for the extirpation of this villainy
than most of the subsequent administra¬
tions. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and
although it was halted in its work still he
accomplished more than some of the admin¬
istrations which did nothing hut talk, poisoned talk,
taik. At last, but not until it had
generations, polygamy has received its death¬
blow.
Polygamy in Utah warred against the mar¬
riage relation throughout the land. It was
impossible to have such an awful sewer of
iniquity sending up its miasma, South, which East was and
wafted by the winds North,
West, without the whoie land being affected
by Another it- that has warred against
influence
the marriage relation in this country has
been a pustulous literature, with its millions
of sheets every week choked with stories of
domestic wrongs and infidelities and massa¬
cres and outrage?, until it is a wonder to me
that there are any decencies or any common
sense left on the subject of marriage. One
half of the newsstands of all our cities reek¬
ing with the filth.
“Now,” say some, “we admit all these
evils, and the only way to clear them out or
correct them is by easy divorce.” Well, fie
fore we yield to that cry let us find out how
easy it is now.
I have looked over the laws of all the States,
and I find that, while in some States it is
easier than in others, in every State it is
easv. The State of Illinois, through its Leg
islature. recites a long list of proper causes
fer divorce and then closes up by giving to of
the divorce courts the right to make the decree
in any case where they deem it ex
nedient. After that you are not surprised
at the announcement that in one county of
the State of Illinois, in one year, there were
833 divorces. If you want to*know how easy
it is vou have onlvtolookover the records of
the States. In the city of San Francisco 333
divorces Yn England" one vear'. and in twenty years
20,000. Is that not easy
If the same ratio continue-the ratio of
multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of
divorce—we are not far from the time when
our courtwill have to set apart whole days
for a-'oUcatiOD and a vou '.-ill have to
Drove a»ainrt a' man will be that he left his all
newsoaper in the middle of the floor, and
Causes of divorce double in a few
doubled in France, doubled in England anl
doubled in the United States. To show you
Wi^ern 7 Reserve! 5 Ohio?* celebrated the‘proportiYn to of
divorces to marriages is one
eleven."in Rhode Island is one I? to not thirteen .that easy in
YVrmont cuetr fourteen.
^I^waat you to notice along that with frequency the disso- of
divorce always goes fewtr
Save not luteness on" < ea~ oPdivm-Sf reign
rffflorv and virtue. Then the 01
vice began and divorce became epidemic. If
you wait to knew I: w rapidly 'he empire
went down, ask Cbboo. ^ in „
What we ^ a
lands is that divorce be made
njore and more dicuouit. men peopi- o
fore they enter that relation will he per
eauded that there will probably door be of no the escape sep
from it except through the
uP-Hpr. lien tii-y win pa fully oa tfc satisfied yen?.
cf that relation until they are right, and that
that it is best, and that it is
it is happiest. XI l n wc lu^ve bo moret
v* Th If*II ‘Will
not {V Ol Iff
tiiw it t
beg,
The Hamilton Journal
olous into the tremendous, and there will he
no more joking about the blossoms in a
bride’s liair than about the cypress oa a
coffin.
What we want is that the Congress of the
United States change the National Constitu¬
tion so that a law Qan be passed which shall
be uniform all over the country, and what
shall be right in one State shall bo right in
all the States, and what is wrong in one State
will be wrong in all the States.
How is it now? If a party in the marriage
relation gets dissatisfied, it is only necessary
to move to another State to achieve libera¬
tion from the domestio tie. and divorce is
effected so easy that the first one party knows
of It is by seeing in the newspaper that Rev.
Dr. Somebody on March 17, 1895, introduced
in a new marriage relation a member of the
household who went off on a pleasure excur¬
sion to Newport or a business excursion to
Chicago. Married at the bride’s house. No
cards. There are States of the Union which
practically put a premium upon relation, the disin¬ while
tegration of the marriage York
there are other States, like our own New
State, that had for a long time the pre-emi¬
nent idiocy of making marriage lawful at
twelve and fourteen years of age.
The for Congress of the United National States needs to
tion move a change of the Constitu¬ made
and to appoint a committee—not
up . single gentlemen, but of men of fami¬
lies, and tlieir families in Washington— who
shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, com¬
prehensive. uniform law that will control
everything Horn. That from Sandy Hook to broken the Goldeu
will put an end to ties
in marriages. That will send divorce law¬
yers into a decent business. That will set
people of agitated how for many years on from the ques¬ each
tion shall they get away
other to planning how they can adjust them¬
selves to the more or less unfavorable circum¬
stances.
More difficult divorce will put an estoppel finan¬
to a great extent upon marriage as a
cial speculation. There are men who go in¬
to the relation just as they go into Wall street
to purchase shares. The femaleto be invited
into the partnership of wedlock is utterly
unattractive and in disposition a suppressed this
Vesuvius. Everybody knows it but mas¬
culine candidate for matrimonial orders,
through the commercial agency or through much
the county records, ilnds out calculates how it.
estate is to he inherited, and lie
He thinks out how long it will be before the
old man will die, and whether he can stand
the refractory temper until lie does die, and
then he enters the relation, for he says, “If
I cannot stand it, then through the div orce
law I’ll back out.” That process is going on
all the time, and men enter the relation wit h
out any moral principle, without any affec¬
tion,and it is as much a matter of stock spec¬
ulation as anything Illinois that transpired Central yesterday Dela¬
in Union Pacific, or
ware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose a man understood, as lie
ought to understand, that if he goes into that
relation there is no possibility of his getting
out, or no probability, he would be more slow
to put his neck in the yoke. He would say
to himself, “Rather than a Caribbean whirl¬
wind with a whole fleec of shipping in its
arms give me a zephyr off fields of sunshine
and gardens of peace.” hundreds of
Let me say to the young peo¬
ple in this house this afternoon, before you
give your heart and hand in holy alliance use
all cautions. Inquire outside as to habits,
explore the disposition, scrutinize the taste,
question the ancestry and find out the am
bitions. Do not take the heroes and Ihe
heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do
not put your lifetime happiness in tho keep¬
ing of a man who has a reputation for being
a little loose in morals or in the keeping of a
woman who dresses fast. Remember that,
while good looks are a kindly gift of God,
wrinkles or accident may despoil them. celebrated Re¬
member that Byron was no more
for his beauty than for his depravity. Re¬
member that Absalom’s hair was not more
splendid Hear it, hear than it! his Tho habits only were foundation despicable. for
happy marriage that has ever been or ever
will be is good character.
Ask God whom you shall marry if you
marry at all. A uniou formed in prayer will
be a happy anil union, though sickness pale the
cheek, poverty empty the bread tray,
and death open the small graves, and all the
pnth of life bo strewn with thorns from tho
marriage altar with its wedding march and
orange blossoms clear on down to the last
farewell at that gate where Isaac and Rebecca.
Ahraliam and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
And let me say to you who are in this re¬
lation. if you make one man or woman hap¬
py, you have not lived in vaiu. Christ says
that what He is to the church you ought to
be to each other, and it sometimes through
difference of opinion or difference of dispo¬
sition you make up your mind that your
marriage was a mistake patiently bear and
forbear, remembering that life at the longest
is short, and that for those who have beet
badly mated in this world death will give
quick and immediate bill of divorcement
written in letters of green brother, grass on quiet sis
graves. And perhaps, appreciate my each my other
better ter, perhaps in heaven you than may have appreciated
you
each other on earth.
In the “Farm Ballads'’ our American poet
puts into the lips ot a repentant husband
after a life of married perturbation these sug¬
gestive words:
And when she dies I wish that she would be
laid by me,
And Ivins together in silence perhaps we
will agree.
And if ever we meet in heaven I would not
think it queer
If we love each other better because we quar¬
reled here.
And let me say to those of you who are in
happy married union avoid first quarrels; with
have no unexplained correspondence suspicions; in
former admirers; cultivate no rush and
a moment of bad temper do not oi.t
tell the neighbors; do not let any of those
j j gad-abouts baggage of of society gab and unload tittle in tattle; your do house not
their how apolo
stand on your rights; learn to
I gfze; do not be so proud, or so stubborn, or
| so devilish that the you worst will domestic not make misfortunes up. Re¬
member that
j and most scandalous divorce cases started
! from little infelicities. The whole piled smashed up
train of ten rail ears telescoped and
at the foot of an embankment 300 feet down
came to that catastrophe by getting of two or
three inches off the track. Some the great
est] domestic misfortunes and the wide re
sounding divorce cases have started from
little misunderstandings that were allowed to
go on and go on until homeaml r^peeta^
down in the crash, crash!
And. fellow citizens as well as jeuowf . jn . -
tians, let us have a divine rage against any
thing that wars on the marriage state.
Blessed institution! Instead of tw . arms to
j fight the battle of life, four; instead of two
eyes to scrutinize the path of life Mur in
W\S
courage, twice the holy ambition, twice the
probability of worldly >: :cces«, twice tne
j prospects of heaven
| Y.w.-r room for ail contentions, and a.i in
'tarings. and aii controversies, but inside the
bower there is room
«gj oMote^ 1st that angel
drawn sword to hew d.^wn the worst foe «■?
that bower-easy divor- And jor every
gained!" And after we'<prit"<mr"h.'.fne home in heaven, here at
-nay we have a brighter wfci-h fa
the windows of this moment are
’
wonderin g why so long we tarn.
^
; ,- crw , sian Settlement fo- North Carolina
The Rev. Mr. Stiltweit. a Norwegian Lnti -
eraQ miDieter of North Dakota, arrived i
Durham. N. C.. a lew days ago. it- visit*
ing that-ri--n with a . ;-w ■ ,f - r
locality to which an His bring report ft
fellow e ntrvmeo.
ditiocs of tsi^ farmer soijm* parts
Dakota.* is tr H<
r-tt'iiig inch
•gltUDSi
Xl‘4
\li9V.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY. MARCH 29.1893.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president has appointed Jas. H.
Collins to be collector of customs at '
Nashville, Tenn. j
The cruiser Colombia, now on her t
way to South America, carries dis
patches the state to Admiral Meade. department Neither will j
nor navy
confirm from this report reliable which, semi-official however, J
comes a I ;
source. It is asserted that the com
munications wliicli Captain Summer j
carries relate chiefly to the Alliance
affair.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
William Martin Aiken, of Cincin¬
nati, Ohio, supervising architect
of the treasury,to fill the vacancy that
occurred on September 20, 1894, by
the resignation of Jeremiah O’ltouke,
of Newark, N. J. The salary is $4,500
per annum. Mr. Aiken is about forty
two years of age, and was born in
South Carolina.
The division of mining statistics and
technology of the United States geol¬
ogical survey has received from l)r.
William C. Day, tho special agent in
chargo of tho statistics of stone, a
statement of tho production of marble
in Georgia in T894. This product,
which comes entirely from I’ickens
county, 481,429 cubic feet, valued at
$716,385, ns compared with $261,666,
tho value iu 1893, an increase of 174
per cent. Georgia ranks second
among the marble producing states,
Vermont being first,
Tho statement is made upon good
authority that the_ decision of the
United States supremo court on ihe
constitutionality of tho income tax
will be rendered before Monday, April
15th. Treasury officials, charged with
collection of the tax have been very
anxious to obtain some informal as¬
surance on this point, inasmuch as the
extension of tho period within which
returns must be made by taxpayers in
order to escape the 50 per cent penal¬
ty, imposed by law, expires on that
day.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Collections of internal revenue from
all sources for the eight months of the
current fiscal year, ns compiled by
Commissioner Miller, show the re¬
ceipts to have ngregated $100,532,464,
an increase over the the eight months
of 1894 of $5,180,622. The principal
sources of revenue were: Spirits,
$59,095,538, an increaso of $4,085,-
763; tobacco, $19,761,742, an in¬
crease of $1,069,999, fermented liquors,
$20,118,768, a decrenso of $129,099;
oieomargerine, $1,108,276, a decrease
of $228,184 and miscellaneous, $436,-
320, an increase of $343,324. The re¬
ceipts for Febiffiary were $1,701,-
445 less than for February 1894.
Among tho itmes of receipts for
February is one of $11,818 on
account of income tax under the new
law. This is the first time any re
ceips from this source has been re¬
ported.
The Great Pension Drain.
Commissioner of Pensions Loehreu
estimates that there will not be any
decreased amount appropriated for
. 'ensions during the next three years.
' ' amount appropriated for the fia
. year of 1896 in round numbers is
^,140,000,000; for the present year tho
amount was $150,000,000. The reason
for the alisenco of any perceptible de¬
crease is that the falling off, owing to
deaths and other causes, is about
counter-balanced by first payment*
in pensions allowed. As case*
are allowed from time to time
there aro large first payments,
some times for arrears, and always
dated from the timo the application
was filed. Tho decrease in some
classes of claims are quiet great, as in
the pensions for the war of 1812,which
have decreased about 50 per cent in
the past year. After three years when
it is expected tho majority of claims
will be adjudicated, and there will be
few remaining first payments, Com¬
missioner Lochren expects there will
then be a rapid falling off' in pensions,
as they have now reached the age
when it is to be expected. He then
expects the pension ajjpropriation will
be diminished in size very materially.
Spain Is Investigating.
Advices of Friday state " that tho
-
Spanish naval commander , at Havana .,
j s B till investigating the firing upon the
St8te8 steamship Allianc* by
the Spanish gunboat Conde de \ ena
dito. As evidence of the thoroughness
witU w hich the Spanish government is
looking into this matter, r it it IS ttsWl bta t„d
that the investigation made by tho na
ya j commander will be entirely tepa
Spanish captain. *•? W hen the naval
commander shall have finished his in
westigation bis report will be cabled to
Madrid. The lull text of the Spanish
captain’s report was forwarded to
Spain as soon as it was placed in the
^ q[ Harana author iti eB .
It is officially stated that Spain will
raa ke no reply to Secretary Gresham’s j
cablegram through Minister Taylor
regarding the Alhanca case until the
naval commander s report shall be in ,
the Lam3s of tLe forei * n officQ of * f " j
fair8 . The Spanish government feel,
that it would be unwise to commit it
self to any reply until it first shall |
have been placed in possession of all f
the information bearing upon the ac
, , .
tion taken by the captain of their
gunboat.
.
Of it? l ■i yields
gallon of
l
SIXTY MINERS DEAD
FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN A WYO
MING COAL MINE.
Nearly all of the Killed Were Married
Mea and Ilad Families.
An explosion occurred at 6 o’clock
p. m . Wednesday in the Rocky Moun
tain Coal and Iron company’s mine,
So. 5, at Bed Canyon, Wyoming. Up
to noon Thursday fifty-nine deaths
were known to have resulted. Six
men were killed on tho outside by fly
ing timbers, and five bodies have so
far been brought out of the mine.
A large force of men is now at work
to recover tho bodies of forty-seven
men known to have been in the mine
at tho time of the explosion. fully
There are fifty widows and 250
orphan children iu the camp as the re¬
sult of the disaster. There is no fire
iu the mine and nud the work or re¬
covering the dead bodies is proceed¬
ing as rapidly as possible. badly
The interior of tho mine is
wrecked, caved iu in many places and
full of foul air. All the buildings at
the mouth of the mine were wrecked.
The entrance to the mine is by vertical
passage into tho side of a hill., not a
perpendicular shaft, and tho workings
are very extensive. No explanation
of the disaster has as yet been dis¬
covered.
Scenes at the Mine.
The scene about the mine was lieart
rending. The air was filled with tho
agonizing screams of 50 widows and
250 orphans asthey gathered about and
saw tho distorted features and mangled
remains of fathers or ebftiide, Bona
or brothers, or realizoil nt last that
there was no hope to seo Iheir loved
ones rescued ulivo from tho mino’s
cruel depths. Help and succor have
been tendered from all sources.
Tho mules that were in the mine
were Idled, as were the men, evidently
by tho force of the concussion and
were removed as fast as they could be
reached.
Tho explosion olew ont or loosened
all the timbering and supports and
cracked and shattered the walls and
roof of tho interior ol the mine, so
that tho search for the dead is attend¬
ed with great peril. The work of re¬
covering tho dead bbcomes more diffi¬
cult as tho working parties advance to¬
ward tho seventh level, where it is
thought the thirty-eight men who have
not been found were gathered to await the
the coming of tho last man tip of
day, whicli wt s to tnko them to the
surface.
A few lives were saved because of
tho time of the explosion. The miners
quit work nt 6 o’clock, and it is cus¬
tomary for them to be near tho en¬
trance and come out just us the whistle
blows. A number Rail eomo out and
tome had just left tho entrance to the
mine slope away from tho working
tunnel when the explosion occurred,
thus escaping death.
Mixty men perished iu the disaster,
thirty-eight of whom are still in tho
mine. About thirty of the dead be¬
longed to tho Ancient Order of United
Workmen and were insured for $2,000
each.
FOUR FIREMEN KILLED
While Attempting to Save a Denver
Hotel.
The Mt. James Hotel at Denver,
Col., was destroyed by fire Saturday
night and four firemonlost their lives.
Every room in the house was occupied
and when the flames wero discovered
steps were taken at once to warn the
guests of their danger. All tho guests
escaped without injury.
Tho unfortunate firemen, in compa¬
ny with four others, wero groping
about iu the blinding smoke iu the
rotunda of the hotel, when the tile
and cement floor gave way, precipita¬
ting them into the basement, where
the four unfortunates were mangled
and suffocated. The other four iire
meu managed to climb out, though
badly bruised and lacerated and near¬
ly overcome by the dense smoke.
SIOUX CITY SUFFERS.
I’roperty to the Value of $400,000
Goes Up iu Smoke.
The greatest fire in the history of
Sioux City, la., occurred Thursday
morning, destroying property to the
value of $400,000. It started in a pile
of rubbish on the platform of tho
Western Transfer and Implement Com¬
pany’s warehouse, and in an hour tho
great iron building, four stories high
and covering a full quarter block of
ground, with over $200,000 worth of
implements and carriages, was a heap
of ruins. The fire spread to the plant
of the Mioux City Linseed Oil Com¬
pany, and soon the big elevator, with
100,000 bushels of flax in it, was de¬
stroyed.
GALVESTON OFFICERS INDICTED
They Are Charged With Misapplied
tlon of City Funds,
A H tartling sensation has been occa-
8ioned j u Galveston, Tex., by the
^ ra rid jury finding bills against Tax
Collector Thomas D. Gilbert and ex
Auditor It. If. Tien.au. The bills
against Gilbert charge misapplication
of the citv’s funds, and there are four
counts against * him. Only one iudict
mfjnt wa fonnd against Tiernan, al
leging alteration of items in the books,
w ;tk intent to defraud. Both weTe
arreB t e d and f/U VO I»r»n A H.
In the Hands of a Receiver.
The Walter A. Wood Harvester
Company at Ht. Paul, Minn., has been
placed in the hands of a receiver ou
application of the Ewart# Maimfaetur
iibf Company, of Iiliuoie,
WHY W£ CAN BECOME AN EXPORT¬
ING NATION.
There is a Largo Foreign Trade With¬
in Roach of Our Manufacturers—
The Great Growth of Home Plants
Has Outstripped the Country’s
Consuming Power.
Tho address of Mr. U. I). Eddy bo
fore the Boot and Shoo Club ol* Bos¬
ton is well worth reading. Mr. Eddy
is certainly in n position to appreciate
the possibilities of this country us an
exporter of manufactured goods, and
liis conviction that we havo u large
foreign trade within our reach is tho
result of his long and practical
acquaintance with markets of the
world.
No one who looked at tho magnifi¬
cent resources of this country could
possibly doubt that here was to be at
some date the world’s greatest work¬
shop. Nowhere else can lie found such
ample and cheap supplies of food for
workmen and of materials for manu¬
facture. Hero is an immense ter¬
ritory and a vast population included
within a single customs system. Hero
.ire the most abundant water powers,
and here are the vastest deposits of
coal. The only reason why any per¬
sons have doubted our destiny as the
greatest international factory was that
wages were higher here than olso
w’here. But there has been a growing
conviction in tho minds of manufac¬
turers that those economists who long
ago pointed out tho difference be¬
tween the rate of wages and tho cost
of labor were right, Mr. Eddy
emphasizes this. The superior energy
and intelligence of labor in this
country, and especially tho freer uso
of those mechanical devices that re¬
duce the amount of labor in a given
amount of product, reduce the cost of
labor often below and generally to ft
point not much if any abovo the cost
of labor iu countries whore wages are
lower, but where tho laborer is of in¬
ferior capacity and whore a larger
proportion of work is done by band.
If the real cost of labor is never much
higher here than in Europe, and is
often a little lower, tho (only obstaolo
iu the way of tho Amorioan manufac¬
turer’s extensive appearance in tho
markets of Europe, Asia, Africa, Mouth
America and Australasia is removed.
Tho limited part taken by tho Ameri¬
can manufacturer iu international
trade is duo primarily to tho superb
advantages the home market afforded
him. That market must always ro
main his best one. Tho mauufactui
ers of no other country have a homo
market to compare with it in the num¬
ber and buying ability of tho peojdc,
in the territory that can be reached
without crossing a customs boundary,
in tho facility and cheapness of trans¬
portation. But in tho process of time
the growth of manufacturing plants
lias outstripped the consuming capac¬
ity of our own peoplo. A considerable
portion of our wheels must stand still
unless we find customers outside of our
owu country. The American manu¬
facturer noeds a foreign market, not
as a substitute for the homo market,
but as a supplement to it. It is there¬
fore a cause of congratulation that tho
conditions] aro so favorable to us in
Mouth America and in somo other por¬
tions of tho world. The revival of
protectionist) attacks iu Europe up¬
on our meats, und the extension of
wheat culture in India, Siberia, Mouth
America and Australia, emphasize the
importance of developing our export
of manufactured goods, a line of busi¬
ness which, as Mr. Eddy says, wheel lias
been well termed tho balance
of trade ; it keeps things going when
the steam pressure temporarily drops.
—Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin.
The Trade Outlook Favorable.
7u tho letter to the Herald pub*
lished yesterday, Mr. George Follett,
of this city, expresses the opinion
that —
—the trails outlook is favorable, utvl that its
the present conditions in the business world,
brought about largely by the radical changes sim¬
effected by the tariff now in force, arc
mered down the situation will bo still
brighter.
There are numerous indications that
this encouraging view is not unfound¬
ed. The imports of last month in¬
creased rapidly, tho customs duties
collected aggregating on the 25th ult.
$975,100 and on the 15th $1,039,241.
There could be no better proof that
the business of the country is begin¬
ning to revive than this increase of
the import trado. From several
quarters come well f<m nded reports
of a decided increase also in the ex¬
portations of American manufactured
goods, for which the manufacturers
ought to thunk the framers of the new
tariff. Had the original Wilson bill
or a still lower tariff been, enacted a
year ago our export trade in manu¬
factured products would probably be
booming now as it never before did.
But tho conditions of production and
commerce created by *the new tariff
are fur the most auspicious and en¬
couraging that the country has seen
since 1861 . — New York Herald.
SHOULD HE AMENDED.
“Remember, boys,” said the teach¬
er, “that iu the bright lexicon of
youth there’s no such word as fail ”
After a few moments a boy raised his
hand. “Well, what isfit, Socrates?”
asked the teacher. “1 was merely
going to suggest,” replied the young¬
ster, “that if such is the case it would
be advisable to write to the publish¬
ers of that lexicon and call their at¬
tention to the omission. ”
a WKhinsn rut;.
Old Offender ’whom the justice
La- just married)—What’s de charge,
j edge?
.1 udge—-Rive dollars
< *id CtfTeeiler—’W< 1 you iifiit as
£00 ft ift&k 1 ’ i live dnvH wiv
FIRE INSURANCE!
Best Rates
And prompt settlement in
case of loss by fire.
Apply at this Office.
VOl„ XXIV. NO. IB.
Two Charges Against High Tariffs.
High tariff duties have been a curse
to most manufacturers as |well as to
"11 consumers. They have increased
the cost of raw materials to all kinds
of manufacturers. To offset this handi¬
cap higher duties have boen placed
upon manufactured products. These
have practically given our manufac¬
turers a monopoly of our markets and
havo encouraged ami fostered the for¬
mation of trusts and combines to ex¬
tort from the Aruoricau peoplo all that
the tariff would permit. Thu fact that
our manufacturers, except in certain
industries, have had no real compe¬
tition for many years has retarded
invention and greatly chocked prog¬
ress. It, costs money and effort to ex¬
periment with now machines and de
vieos, and most manufacturers will
make such experiments only when
necessity compels them to do so. The
high tariff has removed this necessity
and lias, therefore, retarded the de
volopement of our manufacturing in¬
dustries. This evil of high tariffs has
been recognized by some of our prom¬
inent manufacturers—notably those in
the glass and woolon industries.
A still more serious charge against
McKinloyism is that it has enabled
manufacturers capable of competing
with all comers to sell at- protected
prices in our markets, and at free
trade prices iu foreign mai
kets. This method of doing busi¬
ness has become so fashionable that
ex|4lrters oxpoct special pricos for ex¬
port, and somo of thorn boast to thoir
customers that there is no niiinufac
turn! American article that is not sold
cheaper for export, than to the homo
trade. This difference usually varies
from five to twenty per cent., but
sometimes roaches fifty per cent. — as
in the case of some kinds of cartridges
and ammunition sold by tho Cartridge
Trust. The lower duties of tho Wil
ron bill havo compelled some trusts
and manufacturers to lesson this difi
eviminatiou, but tho tariff' reductions
were not radical enough to stop this
disgraceful business, except in the ease
of agricultural implements, which are
now free. The manufacturers of those
implements havo beoomo so accus¬
tomed to giving reduood prices for
export that they will probably con¬
tinue for awhile to give extra dis¬
counts of live to eight per cent, to the
export trade. They cannot, ns here¬
tofore, give large extra discounts, bo
cause tho implements will then be re¬
imported. - In time they will become
convinced that an American is just as
good as a foroign customer, and will
treat both alike.
Advauee in Wind Prices.
Wool trade prospects aro brighten¬
ing. Foreign markets havo boon re¬
lieved of the ouorinous accumulation
of tops that wero manufactured last
year in speculative autioipatiou of the
effect of the American tariff change.
Prices of tops and of foreign yarns
have recovered slightly from tho re¬
cent lowest point, anil at yesterday's
auction sale of Colonial wools in Lou¬
don, which was tho first of the March
series, there was an advance of five to
seven per cent, in tho prie s of wool
as compared with the closing rates of
the January sales.
This change for tho better in the
foreign markets for wool and its
products must ultimately benefit the
holders of American wool. The con¬
sequent increase iu the cost of pro¬
duction abroad lessens tho chaueo of
successful competition with domestic
manufacturers. The lattor havo boen
in command of tho home market over
since the now tariff law weut into ef¬
fect. The worsted mills in particular
are being taxed to their utmost ca¬
pacity to keep paco with their orders.
After only throe months'experience of
“freo wool and forty per cent, ou its
manufactures” it is extremely doubt¬
ful if any considerable number of
wool manufacturers in this country
would now consent to change buck
again to the system of taxed wool im¬
ports should they bo given tho option.
—Philadelphia Record.
We Are Sol bin? Woolens in Kn^lanl.
Tho remarkable fact is reported England, by
Consul Meeker, of Bradford,
that American woolen manufactures
ft re being sold at a profit iu that place,
which is ihe greatest woolen market
iu England.
Tho Consul finds that a ropresenta
tive of a New York mercantile estab¬
lishment, now in England, is buying
English cloth of a certain grade to sell
in the United Btatea, and is selling
American cloth in Great Britain.
A Bradford rnerenaut showed the
Consul samples of American woolen
cloth suitable for men’s clothing,
which were purchased for fifty and
sixty, cents a yurd. Tile Bradford ex¬
port stated that the goods wero of a
superior grade, being made of short
wool, anil that he was astonished that
they could be produced in America
and sold at so low a figure.
The New York visitor stated that he
had placed orders for the goods to
Glasgow and Aberdeen, and expected
to sell them in London.
Consul Meeker, who will continue
his investigation of the matter, says
that if the facts are as represented,
the prediction made upon the passage
of the Wilson bill that, owing to the
advantage given American manufac¬
turers by free wool, their goods would
he selling iu Bradford in six mouths,
has been more than realized.
Be II.
The Buffalo Express (Rep.) says it
prefer? McKinley as a leader in’the
campaign for the Presidency next
year, because “he is the peculiar rep¬
resentative of tho great protective
policy, which must be the leading is
sue. II in name symbolizes protection,
and, with it, the reparation of "the
rmn which Democratic control has
wrought.'
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riuqfh Dakota lit*- v.MiiM farm, valued
HILL ARP'S LETTER.
THE PHILOSOPHER ENJOYS HIM¬
SELF AT A CHOWDER PARTY.
He Makes Preparations to Return to
His Native Heath.
This is our last week in Florida. Wo most
go home, spring or no spring. Anothor boy is
going »way—going far away for good und w >
must see him for a week or two and say good¬
bye. Our youngest boy, Carl, has got a place
in Mexico on the International railroad and
will leave tho paternal home the last of the
month. It is hard on me, but harder on his
mother, for he has been her idol avid her com¬
fort and ho never gave her pain or anxiety.
Already I see tho glassy tears in her eves as oft
an sho thinks about his going. "What if ho
gets sick away off there'?” she says ‘‘No one
to nurse or c&ro for him,” and she lurni awny
her fac* to hide her tears. “But 1m will come
back once * year,” said I. “Mr. Ramil will let
him corn*. Wouldent borrow trouble. The
best way is to look upon the e separations from
our children an part of the bat tle of life. We
left our parents though wo did not go so far
away. But Mexico is not so far eb it used to
be and it takes only two or three days to make
I he journey, and besides it is a good change for
the boy. Ho let him go pleasantly and don't
let him see yon grieve.”
These sail partings of parents and children
have been going on ever since 1 can remember.
Thousands of our boys have gone to Texas and
Arkansas, leaving their old parents behind.
Thousands of motherly hearts have been full to
overflowing. Itisauold, old story, an l par¬
ents should prepare themselves for the inevit¬
able. It is a very seiflsh love that would tie a
boy to tho old him homestead when thero is a bo
ter flold for abroad. Our life work is
nearly ended, while his is just begun, and ho
should take the tide of fortune at its flood and
go where brighter prospects loom up before
him.
It looks now liko this remukablo winter lias
lout its grip upon iho new year, and soon tho
sweet breath of spring will gladden this K)uth
ern in Florida, land. Every and day sick is mid Jovoly the down well hero luxu¬ now
the are
riating in balmy breezes that come sailing from party the
tropics. that Yesterday projected wo for joined Dunedin a friends,
was our
and about twenty-five of us lmuled on Palmet¬
to island, somo four miles away, and
feasted on a fish chowder that was cooked for
us there. 1 have boen to clam bakes in Now
England and Brunswick slews and birbeouea
iu Georgia, but never saw a fish chowder pre¬
pared iu royal stylo before. Our sail boat tow¬
ed & little boat, along that was laden with tho
fldi and the broad and bacon and pofcatoof and
onions and lemons and all the huh cos and sea¬
soning necessary. Colonel Bond, of Marietta,
was chief cook and director general. Yom while g
m°n cut the wood and built tho Arc,
Colonel Bond filled the iron pot wi'b fho ingre¬
dients and soon tho savory odor filled the air
and made tho guests hungry for the tempting
dish. For a while our p»rty wandered up and
down tho beautiful beach on tho gulf side, the
Hindis crushing und r our fent at, ev ry step,
and when wo returned to the palmetto spread grove
the cooks ordered tho tablecloths to bo
and all the cnliuatirH to b# gotten irmly for
the feast. IlitgHnnd mats wore while pi seed palmetto around
for the ladles lo recline upon,
logs gave seals for tho gentlemen. Boat bls
«nit and but or and brollfd middling and
pickles, etcetera, wero tho chowder spread out in tasted wild pro¬ by
fusion, and then was
Colonel Bond and Ills assistants, then retasted
by feminine amateurs and ordered to bo oookod
and salted a little more.
In course of time there was a call for chow¬
der—chowder—chowder, and soon tho delicious
feast was served in soup plates and served all
around. It was pronounced too tedious superb-splendid, mention,
and other adjectives t<*
and some ha<l their plates refilled, but some¬
how or somehow else I did not feel as vora¬
cious os I expected to feel and said tottiynelf, folks as
Mr. Lincoln said of tho ballot, “for tint
who like that, sort of a thing I expect, it is the
v ry sort of a thing they do like.” It, was all
my fault, I know, for there are a good many
good thir.gs that I cultivation don’t relish has but oilier pronounced people
do, and a higher
superfine. I don’t like trip®, nor chitlings,
nor raw oysters, nor frogs, nor snails, nor
mushrooms, nor patte do foi gras, nor turtle,
nor shrimps, nor clam chowder. In f.ict, I
have a pr judico against anything named
Chowder, and it is all my fault and a lack of
education. But wo had a glorious day and
everybody was Inppy. General Parsons and
myself were tlie veterans of the party, and after
dinner we stol i ( ff to tho boat and took a nap
noon the cushioned seals. Tim general is from
Illinois, a genial, kind, considerate gentleman,
and a tariff reform democrat. Ho earned hi*
title by fighting us, and I earned mine by
fighting him. an i here we were sleeping side
by side in southern waters. The lion and the
lamb laid down together. The general himself is now
seventy-seven years old, but carries
well, und everybody I kes him, is • specially his
modest, ludy-like daughter, who a favorite
with our pc f tie. I like that—we all hko that.
And wo had Colonel Bond, a Savannah gon
tIonian, but now of Marietta, who took ofl
ti n (oat and was master of erromonton.
hau made fi$l» chowrler on Wolfe Is*
land for thirty years and was gir
en a diplomi b/ Captain Postell many years
ago. Then there wi re Colonel Bond's lovely
(laughti arul tlie beautiful Dunedin ... Kiris
rs, gushing «dj< ot
and somo other maidens with
ives and somo fair mitrons an 1 some young
men who danced attendance upon the maidens.
I was sitting by a very jovoly girl i'» the host,
when * cheeky young man by the name of
Qradv, who was reclining on ti e bow. gave
a sweet and gentle whistle and my girl ieft ra»,
under a false pretense, and went to him and
Hi ver came back any more. Ir reminded me
of IIurn Us pretty poem, “Whittle and I'll Come
to Ye My Lad. The next time I go l will take
my wife and sit bv her, for them young girl#
are unreliable. Nobody but a settled woman
*1 its me now. Petersburg,
Last week J visi od St. Washington's by mvj
ta ion, to Kelp commemorate
birthday. I found the hotels and the town
full of patriotic people, and the-blue and the
gray mingled to ether in fraternal union. I
believi the sections n» drawing nearer to
get her. and when I die and a f»*w more <n both
sides, the p imii y w»,k be right friend!v. i
hoard a good Conner v.ttive sold hem Presbyte*
ri«n say the o ber day that the Presbyterian
t Lurches, north ami south, -would unfce again
ts s >on as half a <1 z n of their lead ng boom, preach' but
era died. Bt. Per rdmrg is not on a
it is growing slowly a id surrlv, und is a fa wot
ite icsort wi*h tourius. Tin Ddr.it hotel
ranks among the best in the sla’c and is quite
full of guests. Tin fl ad»g ho>l was unfln
[shed when a late st mi sunk it ‘ n one s|de will and
made a toboggan of tl.G roof. B it they
rsiie it again and tor » it into a sc <man s home,
like tin*y did the l*- great tmi Kn‘o bring u But far l vv.-athef hope to
wo roil a lit lo f r OtiiUUUion.
with us.—Bib Arp in Atlanta
Peace Negotiations Muy I*nil.
Advices from Yokohama, Jspav, are
to the effect that the negotiations will for
peace between Chinn and Japan
not be successful. The army is the
dominant power in Japan end the mil¬
itary men are bent upon continuing being
| the campaign, l'ro.h troops arc
hurried forward. In the house of
representatives, notice has been given
of a motion declaring that the time
for peace negotiations has not arrived.
No Break in the Deadlock.
The Delaware senatorial deadlock
entered upon it# tenth week Tuesday,
and no signs of a break were visible,
despite the many reports to the con
trary.
The man who make* hi# own god
always ha* a little one.